ABSTRACT This article analyses the regulatory handbooks produced by the new regulators for solicitors and barristers, the main legal professions in England and Wales, following the Legal Services Act 2007. It focuses on the new codes of conduct and the 10 high-level regulatory standards that are a feature of each handbook. The article examines the ways in which key interests have been dealt with in the handbooks from the perspective of the historical narratives of the legal professions and their publications, including their previous codes of conduct. It is found that the barristers’ and solicitors’ codes project different ethical orientations towards the supposedly universal ‘standard conception of the lawyer’s role’ based on the principles of neutrality and partisanship. The origins, meaning and significance of the high-level standards are considered. They are found not to reflect the content of the codes of conduct or to communicate cherished elements of the professions’ historical narratives. It is argued that this is problematic in terms of the professional functions of regulation, education and communication.

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法律专业新手册：叙述、标准和价值观

摘要 本文分析了新的监管机构为英格兰和威尔士的主要法律职业律师和大律师制定的监管手册，遵循 2007 年法律服务法案。它侧重于新的行为准则和 10 项高级监管标准。是每本手册的一个特点。本文从法律职业及其出版物的历史叙述的角度，包括他们以前的行为准则，研究了手册中处理关键利益的方式。发现大律师和律师的守则针对基于中立和党派原则的所谓普遍“律师角色的标准概念”投射了不同的道德取向。起源，高标准的意义和重要性被考虑在内。他们被发现没有反映行为准则的内容，也没有传达职业历史叙述中珍贵的元素。有人认为，就监管、教育和交流的专业功能而言，这是有问题的。